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Bohnsen Cottages (Portland, Oregon)

Date
  • 1926
Description
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed,2008 )
View
  • exterior: Looking Northeast from the Southwest at west facade of 1922 Elm Street
View Date
  • 2008-02
Temporal
  • 1920-1929
MODS Note
  • From the National Register form, Conclusion: The Bohnsen Cottages represent an attempt to blend both the single-family detached home with rental property during a time of domestic architectural experimentation. As such, the cottages feature many elements of a single-family detached home that would appeal to the tastes of the middle-class for affordable homes, such as a unique addresses, separate entries, rear or service doors, individual garages and basements. They also blend apartment features. At 31 by 18 feet, their 550 square feet of living space compares with a studio size apartment. Entry is directly into the living room, much as an apartment is accessed, and kitchens are, by comparison, Pullman-size while the “yard” is communal. Yet, despite the compact size, each structure has the luxury of a garage, an asset that might make the units more attractive but would not appreciably add to the rent. As a building type, the cottages are a unique form in the Portland Heights neighborhood and as rental housing rare in the city at large. They are indicative of the multi-family housing development trend of the 1920s and represent a very specific response to the market for middle-income housing, one that is economical but with the trappings of being independent and upscale, efficient, and auto-friendly. In this the Bohnsen Cottages stand apart from the multitude of duplexes and four-plexes, court apartments, garden apartments, flats, and residential hotels in Portland.
  • This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
Street Address
  • 1922 Elm Street
GPS Latitude
  • 45.508323
GPS Longitude
  • -122.493337
Material
  • concrete; stucco; terra cotta; metal
Rights Holder
  • Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
Identifier
  • OR_MultnomahCounty_Bohnsen10.jpg
Source
Provenance
  • University of Oregon Libraries
Citation
  • National Register of Historic Places, http://www.nps.gov/nr
  • National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
Conversion
  • This image is derived from a digital file (TIFF or JPG) received from the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.
Submission Date
  • 05/04/2015
Modified
  • 08/12/2022
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MLA

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Chicago

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Wiki

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